Unspoken Voices-Unbroken Spiritswith new choreographed dance, International Dance Exchange Project with Kent State University in USA, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University and Burapha University in Thailand, Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University, 6pm, January 15

Composer in Residence, MacDowell Colony, NH, January 26 to March 2

Guest Composer, freshman seminar on cultural fusion music, Rutgers University (The State University of New Jersey), NJ, March 2

Director of International Programs, curating various concerts, lectures, seminars, workshops, forums, and reading for new compositions, Burapha's Music and Performing Arts International Festival, Thailand, March 14-24

Award-winning composer Koji Nakano’s music reflects the relationship between beauty, form and imperfection through the formality of music. In 2008, he became the first composer to receive the S&R Washington Award Grand Prize. Since then, Dr. Nakano has been recognized as one of the major voices among Asian composers of his generation.

Dr. Nakano currently divides his time between USA and Asia as a composer, scholar and an educator. As the co-founder of the Asian Young Musicians’ Connection (AYMC), he promotes new music by commissioning emerging composers to create music for worldwide professional musicians for its regular concerts, lectures and workshops.

In the fall of 2016, Dr. Nakano was the the Scripps Erma Taylor O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professor at Scripps College in Claremont. He is the Resident Composer for the LotusFlower New Music Project in USA and a member of ASCAP.​“A haunting work” -New York Times​